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About 20km southeast of Brandenburg, and equally accessible from Potsdam, the time-warp village of LEHNIN clusters round its huge Kloster (May-Oct Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm; www.stift-lehnin.de ; DM6/?3), which was founded in 1180 by Cistercian monks on what was then a swampy marsh deep in a forest populated mainly by heathen and hostile Slavs. Despite many vicissitudes, the Klosterkirche survives intact and offers a graphic illustration of the way the Romanesque style of the east end - the first part to be built - had given way to the Gothic by the time the building was completed in 1260. Although the simple

majesty of the elevation is the most impressive feature, there are also a few notable works of art, including a Romanesque triumphal cross and the tomb slab of Margrave Otto IV, son-in-law of Emperor Rudolf von Habsburg, the founder of medieval Europe's most powerful dynasty. Within the monastic complex is a guesthouse (tel 0 33 82/76 80; DM125-149/?63-74); the village also has a good hotel with restaurant, Markgraf , Friedensstr. 13 (tel 0 33 82/76 50; DM125-149/?63-74).

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